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Lumiang Cave
Sagada, Philippines

Lumiang Cave

This burial cave houses around 100 ancient coffins, neatly stacked to form a massive wall.
Moqui Cave
Kanab, Utah

Moqui Cave

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.
Narusawa, Japan

Fugaku Wind Cave

One in a pair of subterranean caves created by an ancient eruption of Mount Fuji.
View on Halvikhallen from the bay at Fårøya.
Hellvik, Norway

Halvikhula

The largest cave in Northern Europe.
The altar inside the hermitage.
Caramanico Terme, Italy

Eremo di San Giovanni all'Orfento (Hermitage of Saint John all'Orfento)

You can only access this hermitage by crawling under a ledge suspended above an overhang.
Apollophanes Cave, a burial site in Israel's Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park.
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The Strange Afterlife of a Mysterious Tomb Inscription

"I lay with another but I love you, the one most dear to me."
Gitit Ginat August 26, 2020
Caglieron Caves
Fregona, Italy

Caglieron Caves

These caves are home to a small church and were used to age cheese.
Babatunda Pit is the largest shaft in the cave.
Gagra, Georgia

Veryovkina Cave

Veryovkina Cave is more than 1.3 miles deep—the deepest known in the world.
Hermitage of Saint Sava
Savovo, Serbia

Hermitage of Saint Sava

This mesmerizing medieval monastery-cave complex sits thousands of feet above ground overlooking a valley.
An architectural pilgrimage.
Itinerary

8 Blissfully Shady Spots to Escape the Arizona Sun

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Rachel Rummel
Äventyrsgruvan Tuna-Hästberg (Tuna-Hästberg Adventure Mine)
Borlänge V, Sweden

Äventyrsgruvan Tuna-Hästberg (Tuna-Hästberg Adventure Mine)

A centuries-old iron mine is now a paradise for explorers, divers, and spelunkers.
Papasidero, Italy

Romito Cave

A mountain cave is the site of archaeological findings and Paleolithic rock art.
The cave entrance is unassuming.
Oracle, Arizona

Peppersauce Cave

An off-the-beaten path cave with an underground lake.
The blue pool.
Nova Redenção, Brazil

Poço Azul (Blue Pool)

Deep below the dry landscape of Bahia, a cave with intense blue water to float in.
Al Wahat Al Dakhla Desert, Egypt

Cave of Swimmers

A hyper-remote desert cave dramatized in "The English Patient."
Inside the Son Bhandar Caves.
Rajgir, India

Son Bhandar Caves

A pair of mysterious, unusually polished cave temples with an ancient gold legend.
The entrance to the Devil's Well
Caprarola, Italy

Pozzo del Diavolo (Devil's Well)

Was this cave created by Hercules's wrath, the devil, or volcanic activity?
Castillo Cave, entrance
Puente Viesgo, Spain

Caves of Monte Castillo

The walls of these four caverns are filled with art that dates back to the earliest human presence in Europe.